Rennet-package and method of making same.



A. J. MARSGHALL.

RENNET PACKAGE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19, 1912.

1,038,920, Patented Sept. 17, 1912.

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new a. areneonate, or Mamson. Wisconsin.

manner-menace AND METHOD or MAKING same.

r Specification of Letteraiatent. Patented Sept, 17,1912, Application anuanuar 1a, 1912. man No. dram.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, 'Anonr J. MARSCiIALL,

usually designated home made rennet.

In preparing this solution or extract the cheese maker first removes the fleshy parts of the calf stomachs which parts are of no value, because they contain but little of the rennet ferment and are liable to contain objectionable ingredients or germs, and then uses from day to dayas much of the calf stomach as he requires for present use. --As these stomachs are very uneven in size and in strength of ferment, the solution prepared from them differs greatly in strength from day to day and this results in uneven fermentation and great variations-in the ity of the product.

The object of this invention is to produce a rennet .packa e in which the rennet ferment is umfor y distributed so that a certain fractional part of this package will contain a certain corresponding quantity of the ferment, thereby enabling the cheese maker to produce an extract or solution of a certain strength by using a certain corresponding fractional part of this rennet packa e. 3

In t e accompanying drawing: F1 ure 1 re resents a perspective view oi: a cy indrica packa e, and Fig. 2 a similar view of a four-side package.

Like reference characters refer to like qualparts in the several figures.

In pre aring this package the fleshy ortions of the stomachs are first removed. he remaining thin portions are then minced or cut fine andthis minced product of a large rial is then compacted in the form of a bod or bar under considerable pressure, whic body or bar may be cylindrical or fourslded. The rennet material is forced into a casing or envelop of heavy paper, cardboard or other suitable material and the easngus provided with marks or graduations indicating certain convenient divisions of the body or bar. For illustration,'the body or bar may be made to contain the equivalent of ten rennets and be about twelve inches long, and if cylindrical about one and one-half inches in diameter. The casmg may be marked with a longitudinal scale or graduation having units which correspend with one average rennet and these unlts may be subdivided into uarters or other convenient fractions. l vhen the cheesemaker wishes to use a quantity of this rennet he cuts from the body or bar a piece suitable for his purpose, removes the casing or envelop fromthe piece so cut off and then uses the rennet material in the usual way.

As the rennet material is uniform from end to end of the body, baror ackage, the ch'eesemaker will produce with great convenience and certainty solutions of practically uniform strength by using in each case a corresponding measured quantity of material.

A small quantity of salt or other preservative or useful ingredient may be mixed with the rennet material, if desired.

In the drawings, A represents the minced, mixed and compacted rennet material, B a cylindrical envelop, and G a four-sided envelop.

I claim as my invention:

1. The herein described method of producin a body of rennet material containing t e rennet ferment in'uniform distribution, which method consists in mincing the rennet-containing portions of a large number of calf stomachs, mixing the minced material thoroughly, and compacting the minced and mixed material under pressure, substantially as set forth.

. 2. A. bed of rennet material containing the rennet erment in uniform distribution, such body consisting of the compacted, minced and mixed rennet-containing portions of a large number of calf stomachs, substantially as set forth.

3. A bod of rennet lnsterial pontaining Witness my hand this 13th day of Janthe rennet erment 1n unlform distribution, uary, 1912.

such body consisting of the compacted minced and mixed rennet-containing por ADOLF MARSCHALL' s tions of a large numbsr of calf stomachs, Witnesses: I and an enveloping casmg, substantially as E. B. wns'rco'r'r, set forth. v E. C. Donn. 

